Company Description
At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career.
In Social Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms and the correct interventions, we can change service user’s ideology, helping them desist from crime and reach their true potential.
Job Description
This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a Wellbeing Practitioner at our Personal Wellbeing service covering the Wiltshire area. Commissioned by HMPPS, this service is focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders by delivering focused interventions across the following pathways:
1. Family and Significant Others
2. Lifestyle and Associates
3. Emotional Wellbeing Services
4. Social Inclusion
Your role will be to support service users to develop strategies to manage emotions and deliver skills training to foster self-confidence by knowing how to access appropriate support. You will also support service users to increase capacity to undertake activities to support daily living and advocate for service users in conjunction with multi-agency partners to engage with treatment and other professionals/services (MH teams/support groups). Your role will support our team in achieving our Justice Business Plan objectives: innovate, revitalize, and reform the delivery of Justice Services.
This role will involve working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, Voluntary Sector, and other Criminal Justice organizations to promote and deliver our services and achieve the required outputs and outcomes.
Qualifications
Essential
* Driving License and Access to a vehicle.
* Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent.
* Evidence of continual professional development.
* Good IT Skills and experience working with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel and other IT applications.
Desirable
* Any qualification relevant to rehabilitation of offenders, for example criminology, criminal justice, social care, mental health, IAG, Family Services, Emotional Wellbeing, or Social Inclusion.
Additional Information
Those interested in applying for this opportunity should review the Job Description & Person Specification to find out more. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact callum.isles@catch-22.org.uk.
Additional Requirements: Successful post-holders will need to have a full UK Driving License and access to a personal vehicle for work purposes.
Contract: Permanent
Hours & work pattern: Full time, 38 hours per week.
Salary: £25,585
Location: You will need to travel to offices across the Wiltshire region.
Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check, HMPPS vetting check, and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.
To Apply: All of our current vacancies can be found here. Please provide your CV and cover letter, along with the completion of the screening questions to express your interest in this opportunity. Please note, in the interest of safer recruitment and ensuring that applicants are a right fit for the role, submitted applications must contain a CV, satisfactory responses to the screening questions, and information detailing interest in the role, to be considered for this position.
Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box
Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see the opportunities Information Pack for more information.
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
At Catch22 we are proud of our commitment in supporting people develop in their careers and progress in our organisation. In 2024, within our Justice Hub, we have 68% of those in management roles that originally joined Catch22 in the frontline workforce and some worked across a number of roles and Leadership positions before joining management. This allows us to have a highly experienced management group and provides development opportunities for those in our much valued front-line.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
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